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A bitter end for House Republican freshmen

Here was one of the largest GOP classes in memory, steadfast in its determination to shake up the nation’s capital. Two years later, its members watched as Congress ratified a deal backed by President Obama that allowed taxes to increase for affluent Americans–the first significant income-tax hike in two decades.

“If this is how we end the 112th Congress, it will disappoint every member of the class,” said freshman Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., as he munched on Cheetos and walking alone after a GOP conference meeting on Tuesday. “This is exactly what we came to change, problems like this.… We came here to make big bold changes, and at the end of the day, for whatever reason, we frittered away most of the energy that sent us to here in 2010.” …

Many of the new members vowed not to raise the debt ceiling without big cuts in the federal budget. It was raised anyway. They argued that the payroll-tax holiday that was enacted to combat the recession should not be extended into 2012 without offsetting budget cuts. It was extended by unanimous consent in the House as 2011 came to an end. They argued that the people’s business should be done in the open, not in backrooms. But they watched, largely on the sidelines, as House Speaker John Boehner negotiated with President Obama, followed by Vice President Biden striking a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Dumb. As if Obama, the son of two commies, needed encouragement from those losers to engage in his tax the rich demagoguery.

Basilsbest on January 3, 2013 at 9:17 AM

You don’t seem to get it. First, OWS was organized top-down by Obama minions. Second, as of today, OWS’s “one percent” meme has delivered huge, intrusive increases in government & taxation. 2010 elections? So what? The Tea Party hasn’t even slowed the bleeding.

No they didn’t. Obama had that well under way (most had already been accomplished) by the time the OWS movement came around and he would haave continued. They didn’t enhance his agenda or accomplishments in the slightest. They were a sideshow. A very violent, and ominous, sideshow in that they showed us how the young socialist entitlement generation really thinks and is willing to act.

“We came here to make big bold changes, and at the end of the day, for whatever reason, we frittered away most of the energy that sent us to here in 2010.”

Because you dug in your heels, and wouldn’t compromise unless you got 100% of what you wanted.

Immediate example: Had the House passed a Fiscal Cliff bill – even Boehner’s Plan B – it would have been infinitely better than what had passed in the Democratically-controlled Senate. But you held your breath until you turned blue. And we got a far worse bill. Superb job.